At a time when the respectable bourgeois youngsters of my generation were college freshmen, oppressed by simian sophomores and affronted with balderdash… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
She gestured toward his very fine chest with her pencil. “On the off chance I find out after we’re married that your… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
God reveals Himself to a devotee who feels drawn to Him by the combined force of these three attractions: the attraction of… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
Worldly ambition is founded on pride or envy, but emulation, or laudable ambition, is actually founded in humility; for it evidently implies… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military,… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
“Those who have become vitarag (free from all worldly attachments), will have no intent of ownership (maliki bhav).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew -- not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. ... What is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
We are to love God most importantly so that we can grow to love people as he loved us, not so that… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
There are things which happen through effort, and there are things which happen only through effortlessness. There are things which will never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What do worldly (non Self-realised) people do? They feel uneasy the moment a guest arrives. The husband tells his wife, 'you just… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I guess we all feel like underdogs. I remember being a freshman at Brown University and not knowing what a WASP was.… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
Aphorisms have never seduced anybody, but they have fooled some into considering themselves worldly-wise. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile she's coldly interrogating me with her eyes. She's definitely in charge of this house and this moment. This must be Chloe.… — Kenneth Cain Copy Share Image
Losing time is harder than death, as losing time keeps you away from Allah and the Hereafter, while death keeps you away… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I know the cause of all human disappointment -- worldly prejudice. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The Koran says that humanity has been created to recognize and worship God and, as a dimension of this worship, to improve… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
It seems to me quite disastrous that the idea should have got about that Christianity is an other-worldly, unreal, idealistic kind of… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
O what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly business like the divine path of the Israelites through the… — Samuel Wilberforce Copy Share Image
“When does one qualify (for moksha)? It is when he never has any conflict in the worldly life.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Motive is also important in our quest for knowledge and in the questioning that accompanies it. In commenting on our duty to… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Children, we are told to make an offering at the temple or at the feet of the guru, not because the Lord… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Burn worldly love, rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
